[New-Poetry] from the WOM-PO list

[JforJames at aol.com]

When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the  
world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you have to think  of 
your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in  
acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. And  I 
think the world tends to forget that this is the ultimate significance of  the 
body of work each artist produces. It is not an expression of the desire  for 
praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your  
gratitude for the gift of life. 

Stanley Kunitz
1905-2006
from  The Wild Braid, W.W. Norton, 2005




well said, indeed.
Finnegan
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